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Nietzsche's well-known quote implies his preference for a God who dances, a God who loves, a God who enjoys-in short, a God who has better things to do than sending people to heaven or hell. Krishna is He, the eternally blissful, ever-enjoying, all-knowing and all-powerful Supreme Personality of Godhead.A God Who Dances Abridged Edition covers all ninety chapters of the tenth canto of the Sanskrit classic, Srimad-Bhagavatam, in a poetic way that seeks to recreate for the English reader the same pleasure ancient sages experienced hearing about Krishna in the original, melodic and metered Sanskrit. The original edition of A God Who Dances contains a summary of Bhagavad-gita as well as key excerpts from the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The first nine cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam contain the philosophical background needed to properly understand Krishna's life as described in the tenth canto, from which A God Who Dances Abridged Edition is taken. Someone new to Krishna would thus benefit from both these excerpts and the Gita before reading A God Who Dances, Abridged Edition.